Home Education law in Malta

Home Education law in Malta

How can you help.​While public consultation is closed, you still can help! One of the most effective ways to participate in making sure that home education becomes a legal option in Malta is for home educators to visit their own legislators. We are told by people who have worked on legislative matters for a long time, that legislators really like to have a face to associate with a cause. Giving your legislators a family to think of when they think about home education will help when the time for a vote on home education comes up. We can provide an information pack that you can take with you on your visit which shows how home education is an asset for a healthy society and how it is truly the right of each family to educate their children in the way they see fit.​

Currently home education is in the process of being legalised. The new education act of which public consultation closed 9th October, 2016, states that for a person to educate their child at home, they need to either hold a teacher’s warrant or get a private tutor. We are in contact with the Ministry of Education and together with the Home School Legal Defence Association we are representing all Maltese families’ right to home educate their children without undue constraint.